ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,171, issued on March 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Three-dimensional object detection" was invented by Zheng Zhang (San Carlos, Calif.), Han Hu (Beijing), Yue Cao (Redmond, Wash.), Xin Tong (Beijing) and Ze Liu (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, a solution is proposed for three-dimensional (3D) object detection. In this solution, feature representations of a plurality of points are extracted from point cloud data related to a 3D object. Initial feature representations of a set of candidate 3D objects are determi...